Klimt's Pallas Athena (1898) is an unusual painting for Klimt, whose work is often sensuous and highly sexual. By contrast, his de...

The most prominent pagan monument in Europe is the still impressive ruins of the temple of the Parthenon. Its name means "the apar...

Plutarch in his Lives of Agis and Cleomenes mentions the Temple of Pasiphae at Thalamiae, an oracular site in ancient Laconia. Those w...